Stateside for Wednesday, Nov. 12

Detroit’s Financial Review Commission met for the first time today. Its job is to keep Detroit from going bankrupt again. Michigan Radio’s Sarah Cwiek discusses.

There are programs aimed at helping children in poverty, others at trying to help parents. But what about uniting these efforts to help the entire family out of the cycle of poverty? Jane Zehnder-Merrell of the Michigan League for Public Policy joined us.

The Urban Relocation Project after World War II created one of the largest movements of Native Americans in American history. Belind Bardwell and Levi Rickert of the Grand Valley State University Native American Advisory Board hope to document some of those stories.

Grand Rapids musician Ralston Bowles talks about what went wrong on Failure:Lab.

As Lansing fails to fix Michigan roads, many counties have decided to try to solve the problem themselves. We talked with Eric Lupher, President of the Citizens Research Council.

Are cash-starved legislatures taxing the booming energy industry as much as they could be? Barry Rabe, director of the University of Michigan’s Center for Local, State and Urban Policy joined us.

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Jimmy King relates his time as a basketball player, and how basketball has affected his life, and recounts how two NCAA Championship losses to Duke and UNC greatly affected his attitude and perception of himself. King also talks about his relatively poor showing in NBA Draft. Watch the video below to see what King says is his failure, and the role basketball played in it.

Kathy Crosby is the CEO of Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids Business Journal named her one of the 50 Most Influential Women in West Michigan. But, as Crosby shares her story, she tells of pain she experienced in her early childhood in the form of rejection by other children.

Reporter Julie Grant talks about Ohio residents' struggle for more control over the siting of waste wells and drilling rigs in their communities.

Wastewater from fracked wells that produce gas and oil in Pennsylvania and West Virginia is coming to Ohio.

Julie Grant, a reporter who has been researching this issue, says Ohio has become a go-to place for the nation's fracking waste disposal. Grant reports on environmental issues in Ohio and Pennsylvania for the program The Allegheny Front.

"Energy companies point to the geology. They say the layers of underground rock that are better for wastewater storage are easier to access in Ohio, than in Pennsylvania’s hilly Appalachian basin," Grant says.

Pennsylvania is one of the top natural gas producers in the nation, but it’s more difficult to permit a disposal well there. Grant says there are only a few waste disposal wells in the whole state.

In other states around the region, including Michigan and Pennsylvania, the Environmental Protection Agency has authority over those permits -- and the process can take a year or more. But in Ohio, the same permits can be issued in a matter of months. That's because Ohio has primacy over injection wells, so the state, not the federal government, issues the permits and the process is often faster.